Expand Your Toolkit: Accessible Design and Assistive Technologies - Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC)

Accessible Design and Assistive Technologies For ADA & Recruiting and Retention

Accessible website design and assistive technologies are giving employers two powerful new avenues to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and win the recruiting/retention talent wars.

As most job functions and duties are now conducted online, employers are discovering the value and importance of these technologies. Some employees spend their entire day working online, even while sitting in their office at a physical worksite.

With a shortage of skilled workers,¹ the need to keep employees on the job and productive is greater than ever. Professional absence managers need a full toolkit.

Accessible website design helps people who cannot see graphics, or hear audio, or operate a mouse. It facilitates common functions such as filling out a form online and is usually embedded in the website structure. An accessible webpage has code making visual or auditory data available in alternative formats for people with disabilities who use technologies on their computers to access the alternative formats. When a website does not use accessible design, it may present an access barrier to people with disabilities. Although accessible design is aimed at helping with cognitive or motor impairments, it may also help normally abled employees to reach higher productivity.

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